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MEDIA RELEASE Kaiser Permanente has presented a $5,000 grant to The Kohala Center to support the establishment of a surplus fresh produce exchange program – called Crop Share – at Malaai Garden: The Culinary Garden at Waimea Middle School. Crop Share provides the opportunity for community members to bring surplus produce from their farm or […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Pahoa High and Intermediate School’s Green Club will host a light bulb exchange 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4 at Pahoa High School’s Hoolaulea. Families are invited to bring up to old-style incandescent light bulbs to exchange free of charge for CFL light bulbs. Pahoa’s Green Club is participating in the CFL Light […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Kohala Center, Blue Planet Foundation, and Hawaii Energy are seeking twenty community organizations or school groups that are interested in participating in a Compact Florescent Light (CFL) bulb exchange fundraising program that will run through April 2011. Each partnering organization will work under an agreement with the Blue Planet Foundation to exchange […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Enjoy traditional Hawaiian games and celebrate the culture and science of Kahaluu during La Ike Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, at the beach park’s main pavilion. Learn to play Hawaiian games including konane (similar to checkers), hei (string figures), and palaie (played with a loop and ball); discover […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Do you have more tomatoes, avocadoes, or lemons than you can eat? Visit the Saturday, Oct. 16 at the inaugural Crop Swap at The Malaai School Garden at Waimea Middle School, to trade surplus produce for crops grown by your neighbors. The Crop Swap, coordinated by The Kohala Center and funded by a […]

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‘The things they’ll take away, they will remember and use in all their lives’

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Eighth annual exchange Saturday morning at Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; bring picnic lunch

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MIT architecture team explores feasibility of using local materials and resources in building design

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MEDIA RELEASE Archaeologist Thomas Dye will present a brief history of archaeological map-making in Hawaii during a Puana Ka Ike (Imparting Knowledge) lecture in Kona and an Eia Hawaii presentation in Hilo. Dye will speak on the art and science of archaeological map-making 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, at the Keauhou Beach Resort Ballroom in […]

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Special to Hawaii 24/7 by Margaret Masunaga The Bay Concert, a celebration of life at Kahaluu Bay, gave special recognition this year to artist, historian and author Herbert Kawainui Kane. The fundraiser, sponsored by The Kohala Center, was Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa. Kane, a resident of Honaunau, was […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The “2009 Bay Concert: A Celebration of Life at Kahaluu Bay” features Na Hoku award winners Na Leo Pilimehana and Hookena along with emcee Frank de Lima and the Daifukuji Taiko Drummers on Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort Convention Center. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.; concert is 5-8 p.m. […]

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Cornell grad student embarks on three-year study of West Hawaii coral reefs and the diseases that afflict them

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MEDIA RELEASE Hilo and Kailua-Kona. How have these two Hawaii Island urban areas evolved in such different ways over the last 50 years? Researchers at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the U.S. Forest Service in Hilo, and The Kohala Center, backed by a grant from the National Science Foundation, are going to […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island is home to 64 percent of the agricultural land in the state. According to the Census of Agriculture sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2007, roughly 12 percent of the total farmland on the island was devoted to crop production and 71 percent was pastureland.  The Rocky Mountain Institute […]

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